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Drizzt78

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Some Guy From Sadisto. I'd post the epub, but rakuten kobo doesn't allow you to save files:

"“YOU WANT ME,” I said, still not believing the request, “to tell you how I met your grandmother?” The kids nodded their heads, rapidly, all smiles, and enthusiasm. I knew if I gave them their request, those smiles wouldn’t last. I'd be lucky if they ever again spoke to me.

...

“Fine. So, your mom and I met when I was a spy-slash- government assassin, and she was a hooker hired to entertain me, sexually.” Everyone laughed, and stopped when I didn't. Slowly the smiles all dripped away like show off a wood-burning stove, all except for Pyotr’s. He was always a little slower on the uptake, God love him.

...

“And you should start back a little further, dear,” my wife said. “To when you killed Madame Phu in Singapodia.”

...

CHAPTER 1 “SHE WAS SHOT,” I began, “as she stepped from her shower,” the news stories would say the following day. No mention, though, of the fact that she’d been humming an old Singapodian folk song, a song of seduction, when she stepped daintily and drippingly from behind those glass doors, still wearing her silver strap high heels... No mention of the fact that she’d smiled at me, sexily, while humming, as the water slipped down her lovely, golden body, or that she’d purred to me, with just a trace of Asian-French fusion accent, ‘‘I really shouldn't be granting you an exclusive interview while I am nude in my boudoir, Meestair Hawke, but you Ameri-can journalists are so... persuasive.”

“We are,” I admitted. That’s what I'd told her; that I was a newspaperman. And of course, |’d had the forged credentials to verify my story. But I didn't have to be persuasive. She’d eyed me like a piece of tlavortul seasoned meat the moment she'd laid eyes on me at her inauguration party, had stepped fluidly and unbidden out of her sheer evening gown the moment we were alone. Being a fairly young man, |’d become instantly erect. Something she’d appreciated with a lingering glance of her golden eyes, and warming grin. She'd invited me to join her in the shower as she stepped in still wearing those silver heels, but the last thing I wanted was damp gunpowder. She took my refusal as nervous American prudishness, and left the doors open as continued invitation while she soaped and sponged the smoothness of her lean body—her long legs, sculpted ass, small, but firm breasts, smiling and eyeing me with her half-lidded, lit-from-within, golden flecked eyes the entire time.

“Yeah, we don't need all the sexual detail, pops,” Jelena said. “Sssh!” Pyotr hissed, and smiled. ‘‘I think we do!”

l confinued. “And now, Meestair Hawke,” she’d purred, stepping toward me, ignoring the nearby towel, stroking an erect nipple with one, dainty finger, while raking the fingertips of her other hand through her glistening netherhair, “l invite you tojoin me in my bed, only thees time I weel not take ‘no’ for an answer, as I show you how persuasive we French-accented, Singapodian Comm-oo-nists can be...”

She'd begun to walk slowly toward me, strikingly, purposefully, seductively, nakedly, high-heel-edly...

I shuddered. Once again, I was going to have to bed a foreign seductress. How would my future wife feel about my seemingly endless, amorous misadventures? Would she ever truly understand that frequent illicit sex was something I was required to do for the sake of The Free World? No. It was hard to imagine.

Madame Phu reached for my fly, and I cursed my young man's libido, and above-average girth. There was no hiding my fully aroused sexual interest, and she purred sounds of Singapodian delight as she fondled its thickening length through thin fabric, slowly lowering the zipper that would allow it to spring forth like the happy puppy it was, knowing she would pet, scratch, and stroke it affectionately. At least until she killed it... and me.

“Come,” she said once I was a freed man, not meaning it the way you’re thinking—not yet, anyway—taking hold of it like a handle, and pulling me toward her luxurious, opulent bed. “Satisfy me, and l weel speak of all my many Comm-oo- nist secrets.”

Well, I thought. That’s what |’m here for.

She reached the edge of the bed, turned back to face me with a smile, still tightly gripping the solidity of my shaft. She sat her shower—moist, bare ass back on the bed, and in a very unladylike way, spread her legs. She continued to pull me— forward and, down—until I was forced to put away my notebook, and place my hands to either side of her so I could brace myself on the bed and avoid falling over. She teased the head of my cock just inside her very wet folds, moving it up and down firmly, but gently. It was a fabulous sensation, and her expression showed that she had been expecting my positive response.

“Moof forward, jost a Ieetle,” she said, quietly. I did, and my smaller head was enfolded within snug layers of softness and warmth. She cooed, and mmmm’d, released me, leaning back on her elbows, staring at my face with appreciative intensity. “The look on a mans face when he first feels me around him,” she whispered, “is my favorite moment of the love- making.” “And this is my favorite,” I said, shoving fully into her moist grip, watching her eyes widen in surprise, and erotic upheaval. She reached out and grabbed my shoulders, her face flush with ardor, her lips parted in a shocked ‘O’ of ecstasy, her wide eyes gazing deeply into mine. “Oh, yes,” she said, “Oh, absolutely, yes.”

Her hot, pliant lips attacked mine, our tongues leaping— one into the other’s mouths. She lay back on the bed as I continued to move—slow|y now—in and out, the intensity of our kisses growing.

I broke my lips from the suction of hers, and asked, “What Communist secrets did you wish to reveal, my beautiful Madame Phu?”

But instead of answering, she pulled a Type 56 Chinese assault rifle from under her pillow, and placed its barrel against my head. ‘‘I don’t know, Trevor Hawke, SADISTO agent 8,” she snarled. “What secrets did you wish to reveal to me?”

She laughed, then, at my change of expression, and I admit to being a little surprised, though not enough to stop moving in and out of her. She had known all along! Known that I was an agent of Security Administration Division of the Institute for Special Tactical Operations, or SADISTO for short! I had thought my cover foolproof. I was wearing false glasses! They always worked for Clark Kent! But apparently, I’d become a better- known agent than I realized.

Gathering myself, I began to withdraw, but Madame Phu reached around, clasped my ass, and yanked. I can't tell you how often that happens. Just when I think |’m out, they pull me back in.

She tapped my forehead with the 56. “Finish first,” she insisted. Staring at the gun in her hand, I slowly resumed moving my hips, and saw her will to fight getting lost in the sensation, expressions of deep pleasure inadvertently fading on and off her beautiful Communist features. Then she reached down with her free hand, and began stimulating herself in rhythm with my movement, and for a brief instant, her eyes closed. In that instant I pulled my own weapon—not that one, the gun—and aimed it at her head.

She looked mildly surprised, but kept stimulating, as I continued thrusting. “Really does not change anything, does it,” Phu said. “No, I suppose not,” I agreed. “|t doz make zis. .. somewhat. . she said, .. sexier.”

“Somewhat,” I admitted, still moving in and out of her. Suddenly she gripped me with her thighs, twisted, shoved, and in an instant, I was on my back, her on top, gun barrels still at one another’s heads. Now I was immobilized, and she was moving on me.

“Still doesn’t change much,” I said. “But now I can move in way that please me,” she said, and laughed. “What’s so funny?” I asked. “You want to keel me,” she said, a little out of breath. “and yet you stare at ze bubbling of my breasts.” “Bobbling,” I corrected. “English is strange language,” she said, hips still grinding. “Whatever. You move happily inside my puss-puss. Stare at movements of my naked tit-tits. Soon the distractions will become too much and I will disarm you.”

I cursed inwardly. She was probably right. My inability to control my innate male weakness for visual stimuli was going to get me killed. Probably as I came. Which might not be a bad way to go. But I didn’t want to cum and go. Not yet.

I assessed the situation. We were focused on one another. Both armed. Both moving rhythmically. Both had one free hand. Hers on my chest for balance as she moved with pressure against my abdomen to continue stimulating her clit. My free hand was doing nothing, and I needed to put it to better use. I licked my fingers, and quickly pinched her right nipple. Twisting, kneading, pulling, massaging, after a moment I gripped the entire breast tightly, and squeezed. I saw her eyes roll up, that I'd regained my opportunity. Twist, pull, thrust, and in less than a moment we had rolled to the floor with me on top once again.

Guns still at each other’s heads. Phu again laughed in my face. “Still you fuck in and out of me,” she said. “But faster. Mmm. Better. You love the danger, and my puss-puss—mmm —and it will keel you.”

She twisted, rolled, jerked, and swung, and once again she was on top, her gun at my temple, my gun at hers. She ground her hips faster, and harder.

“Same way you love my cock,” I said, laughing at her, and driving said instrument deeper with each vigorous thrust, while she stared deeply into my eyes, moaning, deliciously, “and... how I use it. It... will be the death of you, Madame Phu, and I will enjoy watching you enjoy it to the very end.”

“'s good cock,” she admitted, momentarily serious. “Nnnnh... I geev you zis.” She ground her hips much faster along with my thrusts. “Eet fuck puss-puss good. So good. But is cock of freedom. I could nevair love cock of freedom. Like very much, but nevair Iove.”

She twisted, and spun, and flopped, but I adjusted so we landed again on her back, with me on top. I was momentarily distracted by the wild bouncing of her tits, she saw her advantage, twisted, spun and flopped again, and regained the upper hand. As she sat atop me, hips now driving madly, she gave an extra bounce to those tumescent titties.

“| tol you... zees boobies... would be zee end of you,” she laughed, gasped for breath, and ground—ground, gasped, and laughed—her expression and flushed color showing she was nearing climax. Though still laughing.

“Soon I weel cum,” she said, and pressed the machine gun barrel more firmly against my temple, “and you weel go.” I pounded my hips into hers, harder, and faster, until she was bouncing up in the air with each thrust.

“Yes, agent Hawke! Yes!” she screamed. “Fuck me! Fuck my puss-puss harder with your Freedom loving American cock! Fill my cunt with your Conservative American idealistic sperm!”

As she reached new heights in so many ways I shoved her upward with one last drive, her eyes closing, her face flooded red with intense passion, and yanked myself free. As she launched into the air I rolled to one side, and aimed, firing at her as I stumbled backwards, stupidly tangling up in my own drawers. She rolled away from me, discharging her 56 without aiming, bullets ripping through her bed canopy, and ceiling, dislodging the chandelier. I shuffled my snarled feet insanely, my butt barely escaping the falling fixture’s blast radius of glass shards, cable, sparks and wire as it exploded on the floor behind me. I shuffled, fired, shuffled, fired.

“Damn you, Hawke!” she yelled. “I was close! Typical American tactic! Always pulling out before zee job is done!” Rising up from behind her bed, Madame Phu took more careful aim just as I tumbled to cover behind a sofa. Bullets shredded fabric, wood, stuffing, loose change caught between seat cushions—everything blasting apart, splintered shrapnel flying everywhere, into everything... including by butt.

“AAH!” I said, in a very un-agent-like way. “HA!” She laughed. “I hope that got you in your smug, ‘pulls out too-soon’ Freedom Loving, American Ass!” I shucked the pants off my ankles, tossed them aside, ignored the splinters, and dropped to the floor to look under what remained of the sofa.

On the other side of the room I could see Madame Phu’s similarly naked butt crouching near the bed. I took careful aim, and watched her left cheek indent, and wobble furiously, creating a feminine scream almost identical in tone and pitch to mine. Abruptly the naked lower body disappeared as she—what?

“You will never stop our evil, Manchurian plot, Agent 8!” she cried, triumphantly. “You will die having never even discovered its existence! I leave you as dissatisfied as you leave me!”

I poked my head up to see her charging across the room, firing too much in my direction to feel good about. I rolled aside, aimed, fired, and saw a look of surprise spread across her face, the 56 falling from her loosening fingertips as she toppled forward onto the lush, luxuriant lime-green shag carpet before me.

She rolled onto her back, and looked up at me in shock. Slowly she began to laugh, choking it off in a bloody gurgle, red rivulets flowing from the corners of her mouth.

“Kiss me,” she said, her voice soft, and feminine, more bubbling red fluid flowing from between her lips, “before... I die.”

“Ew,” I said, grimacing. “I’d really rather not.”

“Zen... just... hold me...”

“Mmm...” I said, scowling and shaking my head.

‘‘I get no... satisfaction... even... in... ze end...”

Dead.

As she said: before I could learn what her evil, Manchurian plot was. But she was wrong in that I had ‘discovered’ its existence.

I stood to stare down at her magnificent, naked body for a brief, sad, reflective moment, then sighed with relief, wallowing in the glorious sensation that l’d survived. Survived, and won. Somehow, weirdly, still erect. Or maybe not so weirdly. That's more a question for psychiatrists.

...

Maybe I did need to retire. The years were taking their toll. Too many missions, too many bad memories, too much meaningless sex, and now I was making mistakes. Most agents didn’t live to be as old as me. I was practically a seasoned veteran within our organization. In my early years I would have fucked Madame Phu willingly, murdered her heartlessly, and escaped un-discover... ed... ly.

....

With nothing else on my mind—not The Genera|’s inevitable anger, not Méi Nfi pleading with her father to let me stay, not my bullshit reasons for not retiring—| fell immediately asleep.

...

As always, she was incredibly beautiful, her honey-gold hair tumbling in lustrous waves over her shoulders, her eyes like glowing blue jewels, her body lush and youthful and entirely feminine.

And—as always—she was completely nude beneath a white silk robe that was so sheer it was barely more than a thought

She took another step toward me, her breasts swaying with the movement, her ripe, luscious lips parting in a smile. “Darling,” I heard her whisper, “my darling, does it really matter so much?”

‘‘It matters,” I heard myself snarl.

“But darling,” she murmured, her hands sliding over the partially open front of her misty robe, untying, loosening, “darling,” she repeated, more lustily, “this is our wedding night —the night I make you a present of—this...”

She parted the white silk, and let the robe drift away from her magnificent body. Completely naked now other than fur covered heels, she stood smiling at me confidently, proud of her full, heavy breasts, proud of the breathtaking narrowness of waist, proud of the flaring womanly curve of her hips, ass, and legs.

She was so lovely it hurt; her body so beautiful—its movements so fluid—it was like a living flame of purest desire. So lovely, so beautiful, so...

... treacherous.

“My body is all yours, Trevor darling,” she whispered, fingers finding the tips of her inflating nipple. “Yours to touch, to caress, to kiss...”

As always, sweat poured down my face, and exuded from the palms of my hands. As always, my hands were trembling so I had to use both of them to steady the .45 Colt automatic I had pointed at her middle, pointed at a spot just below the dimpled delight of her navel.

“Darling,” she crooned, taking another step toward me, out of a Singapodian, glass shower, fur lined high heels clicking on the tile, “darling, you aren’t really going to shoot your love, your desire, your bride... in the stomach—just because I let slip the fact that I'm a dedicated agent of the Communist conspiracy?”

As always, I felt my entire body clench with those words; tighten in on itself with searing pain.

“What about our dream?” she asked. “Our dream of a home in Upper Westchester... the groomed lawns, the perfect yard, the three-point-two children. .

And—as always—my answer was to squeeze the trigger... The gun bellowed deafeningly and the heavy slug smashed into her with the force of a giant’s fist.

She doubled up, reeling backward to crumple to the bathroom floor in a naked, tangled heap of limbs and hair—b|ood spurting from the round, raw hole in her middle.

“How—how could you?” she gasped.

I snarled. “I just aimed and pulled the trigger.”

“I—I’m dying...” she moaned.

“Good!” I laughed.

“Dying in agony...”

“Even better!” I snarled.

“Won’t you—won’t you kiss me goodbye?” she asked weakly.

“N0!”

“Hold me then... as I die...”

“Never,” I snarled—and, after spitting in her lovely face, I turned and walked away...

...

I hated and feared it—The Dream. The dream that was not entirely a dream but mostly a suppressed memory I couldn't shake. The details changed, but the core of it remained the same.

I’d talked to the doctors about it the last time l’d had my compulsory checkup. The psychiatrist had been very polite, very kind, very useless.

“I take it,” he’d said at last, after |’d told him about the Dream, ‘‘I take it that this dream has a basis in reality—that you did, in fact, shoot your bride in the stomach on your wedding night?” ‘

‘I did,” |’d admitted. “What else could I do? She was a dedicated agent of the Communist conspiracy, and l’d found her...

He waited. I waited.

“Yes?” The psychiatrist had asked. “You mean there's more to the story than what’s in the dream?”

“Much more,” l’d said.

....

l spun my head around. The airline hostess had lowered herself into the seat next to me, and was fastening her seat belt. Suspicious? Possibly. She had to sit somewhere if the plane hit turbulence—l knew that—but why had she chosen the vacant seat next to me? There were other vacant seats on the plane.

“Wasn’t what dreadful?” I asked my natural spy caution bordering on paranoia barely held in check.

“That political assassination in Singapodia,” said the hostess, nodding at the paper on my lap. “Funny,” she went on, “how many women—good-looking women—are big shots in Far Eastern politics these days, considering how downtrodden most women in those countries are. Almost as if they're acting out some kind of bizarre, male sex fantasy for men who dream of bedding powerful, exotic women as a way of showing that they still have the power over them. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame Nu, Nehru’s daughter, Milton Caniff’s The Dragon Lady—and what's her name—that lady Prime Minister in Cey|on—Bandersnatch or something—and of course. .. Madame_Phu.”

“The late Madame Phu,” l corrected.

“Right,” she said, so sadly. “So sad. Who do you suppose killed her?”

“What makes you think I’d know anything about it?” I asked, keeping my voice casual.

“No reason. You seem nice, so I was just making conversation.”

...

“Poor Madame Phu,” sighed the airline hostess. “Why would anyone be so evil as to shoot a poor woman in her own shower?”

“To serve as a warning to other Communists, I suppose,” I said, searching her eyes for a subtextual response. A giveaway. A tell.

...

“And Singapodia was tough,” The General said. “The important thing is that you succeeded in permanently neutralizing Madame Phu. Did she die hard?”

I nodded. “Real hard.” I neglected to mention that I had also been hard. “She wanted to be held as she died, and I refused.”

...

“Do you not sleep with women when we ask you to?” he demanded. “And pay you to do it? Madame Phu being only the most recent example?”

“Well, that’s different,” I said, looking at the ceiling. The floor. Anywhere but the General’s wrinkled stiffy. “

Is it?” he asked. “Is it really? So, when you slept with the head of the Sockson Corporation before throwing her out a window...”

“There was no throwing,” I said, defiantly. “And I didn't sleep with her, we were both awake at the time. I was ramming her from behind against the plate glass of her office when she tried to kill me with a sword, so I ducked, and thrust at the same time. The glass shattered, and... well... there was no sleeping.” “I read the report,” he admonished.

“So, you didn't ‘sleep’, but you fucked her. To death, basically. As you fucked her on that circus trapeze to gain vital, Free World information. As you also fucked her on the roof of her corporate headquarters while you both dangled from a helicopter simultaneously trying to get hold of that decrypted Translation of the Voynich Diaries. For which you were paid.”

...

“Not a soul, 8,” Hans grumbled. “You and your cadet-in- training kin go right on in. Heh, heh, heh! Nice titties. Kin I touch?”

He wiggled his fingers toward Juliet, and she stepped back.

“No,” Juliet said, then looked nervously at me. “He can’t, can he?”

“Not if you don’t want him to,” I said. ‘‘It wouldn’t be considered part of your training.”

“Then I don’t want him to,” she said, defiantly at him.

“Yer loss,” he said, chuckled again, then went back to his racing sheet. “|’ll get ‘em later, though.”

“What an obnoxious old man,” Juliet whispered as we walked toward the door that led to the course. “What did he mean by that?”

“He means if you get killed,” I explained, “he’ll have access to your body. Or whatever parts are left intact. He's already decided which ones he wants, apparently.”

“Don’t let him! Please, Trevor! If all that’s left of me is a nipple, I don't want that creepy old fuck anywhere near it!”

...

Anatomically, she was a dream. I looked back with bliss to the time we'd spent fucking each other, and eagerly looked forward to fucking her in the future. Many times, in many different ways. Nevertheless. Nevertheless, once she got out onto the Obstacle Course, I ceased to think of her as a bed-friend-slash-potentiaI wife-mate and mother of three point two or more of my children. She became instead: A Target; a target I was required as a Mentor Agent to riddle with expanding machine gun bullets if at all possible; a target it was my obligation to explode into red and white fragments of the former ex-cadet agent Juliet Jones as unacceptable for the ranks of SADISTO.

...

I swiveled the machine gun, waited until I figured she was about where I was aiming, let fly. Hot damn! I’d come close to grazing her butt again that time! The tracers really lit it up. Such a pretty bottom, she had. I would miss that butt.

I heard a faint, dismal wall from out of the darkness. I chuckled to myself. Oh, yes, she felt the wind of them.

...

On the way out of the Obstacle Course the caretaker took one look at Juliet—still whole, head attached—and groaned in disappointment.

“Poor old ghoul,” Juliet said as I led the way into the elevator, “he really had his heart set on a head from Wes... consin. Sorry to disappoint you, you grisly fuck!”

“Don’t,” I reprimanded her, “speak ill to a fellow agent; one with many, many years of service.”

“Experience doing what?” muttered Juliet. “Gathering severed heads for his trophy shelf. Using them to give himself ‘blowjobs?”’

“Exactly,” I said. “He was severing girls’ heads, often from their living bodies long before you were even born.”

...

“Or you could just lasso me, and pull me toward you,” she said, knowingly. “You don’t want all this sexy getting eaten by some stupid piranhas, now, do you? Not when you could be eating me, instead.”

“l—l—l—” A knocking at the door saved me having to form a coherent thought. The door opened and two young girls wearing only lipstick and identification anklets marched in. When they saw me, they saluted.

“Agent 8?” they asked, in unison. l nodded.

“Cadet agent Ilsa reporting,” said one, saluting again.

“Cadet agent Sayonara reporting,” said the other, also saluting again.

“Ah, yes,” I said, “|’ve been expecting you.” I turned to Juliet. “l’m going to Big Brother these two girls as well as you, Juliet.”

“And afterward, do you intend to fuck them?” She snarled. ‘

‘I do, indeed." The girls looked at each other, surprised.

Ilsa smiled. Juliet growled at them, and then pouted.

“No pouting," I snapped. “From time-to-time we will each have to perform sexual acts with others for a mission, and to protect The Free World. Me probably more than you. So, you must learn to get along with all other agents, Juliet, and occasionally have sex with them as practice. It's essential in this line of work.”

She stared at me, sadly, for a long moment, then eventually said, her voice a near-whisper, “Yes sir.”

“Now shake hands with cadet agent Ilsa and cadet agent Sayonara.” She did so.

Meanwhile I looked the new girls over. Interesting. Cadet agent Ilsa was tall, wide and handsome; a blonde-haired, fair-skinned Teutonic type with baby-blue eyes and a natural, low-hanging, fifty-inch at least, bosom. Cadet agent Sayonara was short but slender, a petite-breasted, long-legged Asian.

“Cadet agent ||sa,” I explained to Juliet, “is from West Germany. Cadet agent Sayonara, is from South Vietnam.”

“But... isn't Sayonara... Japanese?”

I frowned. Hard.

“We frown hard on political correctness, agent Jones. We frown very hard on political correctness.”

...

“Yiii!” screamed Ilsa, as the first ball-bearing I fired thudded into her more than ample right breast. She didn’t fall, however, but continued doggedly making her way hand over hand along the greased rope.

“While doing your push-ups,” I said to Juliet, letting fly another ball bearing at llsa’s swaying, nude body, “please recite the multiplication tables. You also need to exercise your ability to think clearly while undergoing physical exertion.”

“Yes, sir,” groaned Juliet.

“Yiiiil” screamed Ilsa, as I landed another bullseye.

“Two times one is two,” gasped Juliet, “two times two is four—” “Yiii!” screamed Ilsa, as I fired yet another ball bearing into her softly curved flesh.

“YIIIIIEEE! screamed Ilsa.

“Two times three is—Eeeee!” screamed Juliet.

I frowned. “| didn’t shoot you, Juliet. Don't try to say I did. Why are you screaming?”

“No, look!” Juliet screamed. “The pole at this end is sagging! The greased rope is dropping closer and closer to the surface of the piranha-packed pool!”

I looked. “Help!” screamed Ilsa.

“You’re right,” I said to Juliet. “The rope is sagging. Not only is it now impossible for Ilsa to climb to safety hand over hand, but in a few moments, she’II be dunked into the piranha- infested pool. Mm, mm, mm. Continue your push-ups and reciting the multiplication tables, Juliet.”

“NO!” screamed Juliet. “The rope is sagging more—and more... Now she can only keep her legs out of the water by tucking her knees up under her chin... her milky-white ass is swaying less than an inch above the surface of the pool! You have to—” “

No,” I said sternly, “you have to! Now is the time for you to start obeying orders. Namely, do your push-ups while reciting the multiplication tables.”

“Help!” screamed Ilsa, whose milky-white ass was—indeed —now almost grazing the surface of the water.

“You see, Juliet,” I said sternly, “many times in the field you will have to function clearly and alertly while a fellow agent dies horribly, as Ilsa is now about to die horribly. Oops—l mean, is dying horribly.”

“Help!” screamed llsa. “I am dying horribly! I am eaten alive being! Mine bottom is...” She gave one last horrible scream and dropped into the pool. For several moments her legs and arms thrashed wildly, then all was still. All save for a widening red cloud, which diffused throughout the pool.

“Good Lord—that’s horrible!” gasped Juliet.

“I’ll say,” I said. “That poo|’s filtration system is supposed to kick in by now and clear clouds of blood within seconds. l’|l have to see about having that fixed. Ah, wait... there it is. The water’s clearing. Bigger job than usual, I guess. Wow, what a thorough job those genetically altered piranhas would you look at that? Ilsa’s skeleton has been picked clean.”

...

Juliet pointed with a shaking finger. Sayonara looked, and paled. “No—not really?”

“Really,” I said. “And since Ilsa won’t be needing a hamburger, |’ll take hers.”

“You—you can actually eat?” gasped Juliet. “Seconds after a young, naked, vibrantly alive girl was eaten right in front of you?”

“Sure,” I said. “You know, it’s a funny thing. Whenever I see somebody else eating, even a shoal of piranha, I get hungry.” I began chomping on my hamburger. “Weird, right?”

...

“Mmmm,” I said, sitting back and continuing to eat. “So, class, I think it’s time you girls practiced a little close combat. You’ve both been taught judo, karate, sabot, Tango, commando tactics and the like, I presume?”

They both nodded. Both girls, I noticed, looked almost as green as Ilsa had before she was eaten.

“Excellent,” I said. “Now, tell me girls, in a close combat duel, who would win—a judo/karate/commando-trained fighter, or a fighter with a knife?”

“The first,” said both girls in unison. “Right,” I said. “But what if the fighter with a knife had also been trained in judo/karate/commando tactics?”

Juliet and Sayonara pondered this. “The fighter with the knife,” Sayonara said. “But it would be a very close match,” added Juliet. “As the one without the knife would be very motivated.”

“Right," I said. I picked up a long, wickedly sharp commando knife, hefted it, then tossed it handle first to Juliet. She caught it deftly. “Prove,” I said casually, “the correctness of your last response.”

“l’m sorry, what?” said Juliet, staring blankly at the deadly two-edged knife she held in her right hand.

“Don’t be shy,” I said. “Prove that a knife fighter can kill a fighter without a knife, even if both know judo/karate and commando tactics.’

“You—you mean...?” gasped Juliet.

“Precisely,” I said, with a bite of my burger.

“But—you can’t mean you expect me to kill cadet agent Sayonara just to prove an abstract technical point, can you?”

...

‘‘I can,” I snarled, “and I do.”

“But—but—but—” stammered Juliet.

While the fourth ‘but’ was only half-formed by Juliet’s lips, Sayonara, seeing the deadly dual-edged blade pointed at her Vitals, and Juliet’s indecision—acted. She sprang forward, brought up her right foot in the sweeping kick that karate- trained women and men use to de-knife a knife-wielding opponent Juliet dodged just in time, then stepped deftly back to avoid the lethal swing of Sayonara’s right hand, the edge of which came within inches of breaking Juliet’s jaw. Juliet countered with an upward defensive block, then a vicious low slash of the knife, which Sayonara met with a deadly stab of her left heel—and so it went.

I settled back in my canvas chair, ate and watched, fascinated. The two girls were closely matched. Sayonara, it soon became apparent, was much more skillful in judo, karate and the unarmed combat arts. But Juliet had a knife, a knife she knew how to use. Which would win?

I sat back, got comfortable and waited to find out. Esthetically, the two nude girls fighting made a dramatic, erotic sight. Juliet was tanned a golden bronze, but Sayonara, being Vietnamese, had a natural golden tint to her flesh. The two, at times, resembled goddess statues of purest gold come to deadly life. Around and around they circled, striking, counter-striking, feinting with hands, spinning arms and feet; practiced, deadly; Juliet, having more size in her huge breasts and full buttocks, was at a weight disadvantage compared to Sayonara, whose supple body could move with serpent-like swiftness.

Sayonara struck Juliet in the jaw, the nose, at one point swept a leg out from under her, and gut-punched her, but Juliet maintained her balance, recovered quickly, and struck back with superior strength. Efficiently. Effectively. lmpressively. And Juliet had the knife. A knife that was making more and more small marks on Sayonara’s body.

There was, I decided objectively, no excuse for Juliet not to win within three more minutes. Two minutes and forty-five seconds later Juliet got in a telling up-thrust, and Sayonara staggered back, hands clutched to her middle. Her middle which, I noted with interest, was now bisected by a thin red line from pelvis to rib cage.

“Got her!” Juliet snarled in triumph.

“Almost,” I agreed. “At the moment I agree that Sayonara has been badly cut—on|y her own hands pressed to her belly are keeping her intestines and stomach from falling out. But it is quite incorrect to imply that she's as good as dead. At the moment she is suffering from nothing that a needle and thread couldn’t repair.”

“She IS as good as dead!” hissed Juliet, breathlessly.

“Again, I disagree,” I said. ‘‘I refer you to Icelandic history. One of the Viking chiefs, I forget his name, once had his body cut open while storming a beach with his men. Not only was his stomach cut open, but his intestines spilled out onto the beach. “Nevertheless, he continued fighting and killed his opponent, Iopped the man’s head off as I recall. Thereupon the Viking chief waded out into the sea, washed the sand off his own intestines, and stuffed them back inside. Then he boarded his ship, where his sister, who was handy with a needle and thread, sewed him back together. He lived, according to history, to a ripe old age.”

“Maybe,” hissed Juliet, “maybe not. But I guarantee nobody’s going to sew this bitch back together!”

“Splendid,” I said. “At last, you’re getting the true brutal, callous, inhuman SADISTO spirit. Kill your helpless fellow agent, Juliet!”

“Mercy!” screamed Sayonara, still clutching her stomach and backing away. Juliet hesitated.

“l don’t blame you for hesitating,” I said. “Finishing Sayonara at close range could prove to be messy; her insides might tumble out onto you. You may throw your knife, if you wish.”

Juliet hesitated, then reversed the gleaming commando blade in her hand, drew back her arm, and threw the knife. The silver steel gleamed evilly as it spun through the air. Then, with a meaty thud, it buried itself in Sayonara’s heart.

Sayonara quivered, her eyes rolled up, her hands dropped to her sides, her intestines slopped to the floor, and she herself toppled on top of those vital organs.

“Bravo, Juliet,” I said, setting down my plate. “You have just passed another test, and you’re that much closer to being accepted as a bona fide agent of—where are you? Oh, there you are!”

Juliet, the squeamish girl, had dropped to her knees and was retching into the swimming pool.

“A little retching,” I told her, “is natural and normal after your first kill, but don’t overdo it. Here, l’ll hold your hair, and don’t get your face too close to the pool. Piranhas, remember?”

Juliet jerked her face back just in time to avoid the savage bites of half a dozen piranhas that had frothed up at her.

“l—l killed her!” she gasped. “You certainly did,” I said. “And quite skillfully, too. You may collect a souvenir, if you wish—scalp, ears, an eye, any little thing you feel like keeping. A lot of agents are sentimental about their first kill.”

“Glug, glug,” gasped Juliet, obviously on the verge of retching again.

"Come on, Juliet” I said. “Pull yourself together. Ilsa and Sayonara were sent here specifically to help train you as their final act. And you passed with flying colors! Be proud!”

Juliet rose to her feet and, with great effort, pulled herself together, and even attempted a smile, which was kinda gross because her mouth still had vomit in it. Her eyes, I noted with approval, looked dazed, almost insane. The turquoise had dimmed. She was becoming an agent.

“Before we leave,’’ I said, “you might want to tidy up a little, shove Sayonara’s remains into the pool, and—oh, sorry; excuse me a moment, the phone’s ringing.”

...

“You were right, Trevor,” Juliet said, ‘‘I thought that this would be fun. If you see someone eaten by piranhas in a movie, it’s a kind of scary thrill. You know it’s all pretend, and shocking for entertainment value.”

“Yes,” I agreed, “seeing people pretend to die horribly is a lot of fun.”

“But seeing it in this context,” she said, sniffing back more tears, “knowing that she was a real, flesh and blood person. .

“Real flesh and blood,” I agreed. “So much flesh and blood. Wow. You saw how long it took the filter to clean that out.”

“She was a person that—in other circumstances—might have been a friend. Sayonara and I could have shared lipstick, traded silly notes taped to each other’s doors... and I could die... just like her. And if I fail to perform, fail to learn, I will die... just as horribly. If not more horribly.”

“But cadet agent Jones—l mean Juliet,” I said. “Haven’t you figured it out by now? Neither Sayonara nor—what was her name?—EIsa?”

“llsa.”

“Right. Neither one had the slightest chance of becoming SADISTO agents.”

“Yes, obviously, but...?” Juliet suddenly gasped. “Wait. .

“Exactly,” I said. “You see it now. Sayonara was not Vietnamese, and Ilsa was not West German.”

“Wait,” said Juliet, a small light dawning. “Are you saying Ilsa was... actually... an East German enemy agent, and Sayonara some other Asian enemy agent?”

“Exactly,” I said. “Sayonara was Chinese, with a Japanese name, knowing that we Americans don’t even try to tell the difference. But thanks to our efficient polygraph tests and truth serums, we learned their true identities. In order to study their methods, though, we allowed them to think that they’d penetrated our intelligence network. Both Ilsa and Sayonara, until the instant they were utilized as targets, believed they’d infiltrated the organization as legitimate cadet agents of SADlSTO.”

...

“Wow,” said Juliet. “My gosh. Suddenly I feel so much better, knowing that I disemboweled an enemy agent instead of a failed cadet agent who could have done my hair on Friday nights after a difficult mission. And if I'd known that fat German girl who liked the idea of fucking you was really an enemy agent I wouldn’t have gotten so upset when I saw and heard her being shredded alive by ravenous piranhas. I might even have laughed, a little.”

...

“Just browsing at the moment,” I told him. To Juliet I said, “Want to look the place over?”

She swallowed hard, but nodded her head. I led the way over to the nearest glass cage, inside of which a young, thin, but full-breasted Asian girl was pacing restlessly up and down like an angry panther. I read the small, white card fastened to the glass door.

“Viet Cong guerrilla,” I said. “Presumed age 20. Captured three days ago in a rice paddy armed with a machinegun, and several hand weapons. At first denied enemy activity, then confessed on promise of fair treatment and full pardon if she cooperated.” I laughed.

“Evidently she didn’t know much of value, if she’s been cleared for repatriation after only three days”

“You mean,” said Juliet, “that the CIA thinks she’s on her way back to Vietnam?”

“Sure,” I said cynically. “But what the CIA doesn’t know won’t hurt them. Those boys are a bunch of softies, anyhow. Our way, here at SADISTO, is much better. Not only will the taxpayers be spared the freight of shipping this girl across the Pacific, she can, unwittingly, help The Free World by serving as a useful target on the rifle range, or as a useful subject for any of the many horrible—l mean important—experiments being conducted by our Research and Development People in Department X.”

...

I led the way leisurely down the aisle. The Stockyard was really jammed; |’d seldom seen it so crowded; every glass cell was occupied by a nude, captive enemy agent. Or in a few cases, two.

“Oh!” Juliet stopped, and stared, surprised, and by the inflating state of her nipples, a little aroused. The girl was insatiable. “They’re allowed to have sex?”

“They are,” I said, turning to watch the young couple doing just that. ‘‘It keeps them calm, and entertains us.”

“Although it doesn’t seem to be making them very happy,” Juliet noted, leaning against the glass for a closer look.

I had to agree. They were glaring our way, squinting, teeth- bared, apparently quite angry, even as the man continued thrusting hard, and deep, making the girl’s soft breasts slam up and down in violent harmony. Her legs were wrapped tightly around him, but that, and his relentless movement was the only indication that either of them was remotely interested in the other. I had to remind myself they were not looking at us, but at their own reflections.

“Keep in mind,” I said, “they’re not looking at us, but at their own reflections. Probably opposing agents from antagonistic world organizations who aren’t fully enjoying themselves.”

...

I watched as the raven haired, darkly complected female agent focused, like she was staring right at me, and wished she were staring right at me, while I was on top of her, making her breasts flop around like that.

“Yes,” I said, finally agreeing with Juliet, “a good anger fuck can be both pleasurable, and healthy.”

“Are—are all these people destined to be—used up?” whispered Juliet.

“No need to whisper,” I said, “they can’t hear you through the soundproof glass. And yes, they’ll all be, eh, ‘used up’, as you put it. Which reminds me. Let Siegfried here know if you see any targets that particularly appeal to you. He’ll have them ready and waiting at the rifle range by the time we get there.”

“How many will you be wanting?” cackled Siegfried. I shrugged.

“Oh, a dozen or so should do for today.”

“Could you use two dozen? We’re terribly overcrowded right now—it’s why we put these two together—and l’m expecting a new shipment of subversive Albanians tomorrow.”

“Why not?” I said. “Make it two dozen. We'll take the dark chocolate men over there, those guys who look like they’re covered in sprinkles, and the glazed looking young women in the back. And throw in any plains you might have. I could use a little target practice myself, and like my runners, kind of basic. Not too much added flavor. See anybody you like, JuIiet—or, eh, rather... don’t like?”

“Gee," said Juliet, who looked rather pale, I noticed. “lt’s so hard to choose. I mean, there are so many of them.” She watched the angry couple for a moment, then looked at me out of the corner of her eye with a slight grin. A grin I returned.

“Yes,” I said. ‘‘I think that’s an excellent idea. Make sure we get these two, please, Siggy.”

“Happy to make them available, sir,” he said.

As we strolled through aisle after aisle we were met by a bewildering variety of human targets. Sloe-eyed Romanian girls, tawny as gypsies; arrogant East German men, flaxen- haired and well-muscled; enigmatic Red Chinese girls, high breasted and haughty; sophisticated Russians; pagan-looking Arabs; savage looking Albanians; plump-looking Polish girls; ripe-bodied Cuban girls—dozens and dozens of boys and girls. Heavy on the girls.

“How does it happen,” asked Juliet, “that eight out of ten of these nude captive enemy agents are females?”

‘‘l was just wondering that very thing myself,” I said. “Do you know, Siegfried?”

Siegfried cackled. “Teresa. She used up close to a hundred men, all on her own. Machine gun practice, hand grenade practice, choking practice, cutting up with a knife practice— you know Teresa! She likes to kill men!”

...

Teresa trotted up brandishing the lock of hair she’d cut from her victim's... scalp.

“The range is all yours, chaps.” She halted, and studied Juliet critically.

“A Cadet agent?” she asked me. “Pretty. Nice rack. How is she at anything beyond Seduction? Likely to fail her soon?” Juliet shrank back, and moved behind me a bit. I ignored Teresa.

“Hmmm,” said Teresa. “Not exactly bursting with self- confidence. The General had me act as Big Sister to a couple of male cadet agents like her last week. Good looking. But nervous. Shy, even.” She turned the blade of her little dagger over in her hands, the surrounding lights flared across its surface, making interesting rainbow reflections on Teresa's face as she smiled, darkly. “l flunked them both. Fucked them each as they died.”

...

The metal door on the right sprang open and a staggeringly voluptuous Chinese female enemy agent appeared, glanced around, fired in our direction, then began to sprint like hell toward the opposite door as she continued firing.

“Fire!” I yelled at Juliet. She raised the gun, yanked at the tngger Nothing.

“You forgot to release the safety catch!” I snapped, as the agent’s bullets ripped through the bale of hay in front of us. Juliet clicked the safety catch.

Meanwhile the Chinese enemy agent, her buxom bosom billowing bouncily, was halfway across the range, still firing blindly, but bullets hitting too close for my comfort.

“Juliet!” I yelled as bullets whizzed between our heads. Juliet closed both eyes and fired. “Keep your eyes open!” I ordered.

She opened her eyes, fired again. A spout of straw and dust appeared just behind the frantically running girl. Juliet fired again, and again, the bullets striking in front of or behind the more than ample moving target. Now the Chinese female agent had reached the door marked ‘pull’ and was tugging at it. Naturally, it didn’t open.

“Now that you have a static target,” I said sarcastically to Juliet, “do you think you can do a little better?” “Yes, sir,” said Juliet, clearly distressed. ‘‘I can. I will.” She aimed the Luger carefully, pulled the trigger. Nothing. She’d used the entire magazine.

“What now?” she gasped. “Pick up another gun or reload; whatever works,” I said with irritated indifference, but smelling failure.

Meanwhile the voluptuous Chinese enemy agent, realizing the peril she was in, was taking careful aim. She fired, and struck Juliet in the arm. Juliet screamed, and finally seemed to focus.

The enemy agent, still firing, had begun to stride with rising confidence directly for us. She fired my way this time, but her gun was also empty, and clicked on a spent casing. She threw the gun aside and ran toward the weapons table.

Juliet grabbed a Thompson submachine gun, leveled it, slipped off the safety catch.

“If you miss with that,” I snarled, “l’Il flunk you on the spot!”

Juliet eyed me intensely, angrily, then fired a long burst. She didn’t miss. The voluptuous running Chinese girl suddenly dissolved into red and pink confetti.

“Did—did I get her?” gasped Juliet, still staring at me.

“Yes,” I sighed. “Next time, look at the target, not at me.”

“Yes, sir,” said Juliet. “Uh, pull!”

The metal door on the left was flung open, and a wispy, nude girl with long blonde hair sprang into view. She glanced frantically around, then began to sprint across the rifle range. She had a machinegun but didn’t get to use it. Juliet fragmented her with a short burst from her own weapon.

...

I showed her how to wind up and then load the crossbow. Then I yelled, “Mark!”

A nude girl sprang into view. I chuckled. “Well, what do you know,” I said. “It’s that Viet Cong guerrilla we were looking at in the Stockyard.” The nineteen-year-old guerrilla began to run like mad.

“I'll slow her down for you,” I said, “seeing as how you’re not used to using a crossbow. lt’s trigger operated, just like a gun. Sight along the... that’s it. HeyI” I yelled in Vietnamese, “not that way—this way!”

The girl skidded to a halt, turned and looked at us, shielding her eyes from the bright floodlights all around us. The crossbow in Juliet’s hands made a sound like a plucked then muted guitar string, and an instant later the Viet Cong girl was staring down in horror at the arrow buried almost to the hilt in her middle.

“Load, and fire," I said crisply. Juliet did so.

The Viet Cong girl was swaying on her feet, clutching the shaft of the arrow buried in her, jumped as a second arrow thudded into her right breast. Juliet silently loaded, fired again. A heart shot this time. The Viet Cong girl toppled slowly backward, the bright feathered ends of the arrows jutting up like flagpoles.

...

The ‘Pull’ door opened, and the dark-skinned young man from earlier was shoved out, trying to cover his nakedness. Juliet veered towards him, slapped his hands away, grabbed hold of his manhood, and stroked it furiously to life, taking it in her mouth a couple times to really urge it into stiffness, then pulled him by his hardened dick over to her victim. She knelt down to finish the girl off, raising her own smooth, tanned, young ass—that lovely ass I knew so well, and so intimately—high into the air, wiggling it. “

FUCK ME!” She commanded, pointing her gun at the erect captive agent. He immediately complied, dropping to his knees behind her and entering her as if his life depended on it. Which it did.

“Oh, God, yes—” Juliet moaned, “FUCK ME HARD! ANGER FUCK ME! SLAP MY YASS!” He moved his hips faster, one hand lightly slapping her rump. “SLAP HARDER!” she screamed, and he complied.

“YES,”Juliet screamed. “YES! YES! YES!” And as he leaned in to his work, so did she. Horrible scream after horrible scream of the Bulgarian agent filled the air, and I found myself almost choking up with pride. Juliet Jones had made the grade. She was not, I realized, a cadet agent any more. She was a full-fledged SADISTO killer. A killer for The Free World.

...
I looked at her. Studied her to see if she was fishing for information. As I scowled into her lovely, smiling face, she walked over to me, and began unbuttoning my fly.

“Oh,” she said, looking at her work. “Goodness. I was beginning to wonder if there was anything in there, you showed such little interest in my being naked. But there it is.” She pulled my stiffness free of its confines, and stroked it gently. “And this isn’t a little interest at all.”

She dropped to her knees, and inhaled me—which made me gasp rather unmasculinely. She was already stroking with her right hand as her mouth slid along the entire length of my shaft. The fingertips of her left danced over my dangling balls while her tongue and lips worked magic just above.

“Wooooaaaah. . I said.

“Mmmmm. . she said.

Her hands suddenly grabbed the waist of my trousers, and yanked them down to my thighs, cupping my ass and gripping it with desperate intensity to pull me deeper into her mouth. Then—just as abruptly—she popped her lips and dancing tongue off of me in a way that nearly made me faint. She stood, pushing me back onto what had likely been Trueblue’s desk. Or was intended to appear to be.

The chauffeur walked her legs to either side of me, guiding my spit-soaked head into her soft folds while pressing her own hips forward. The heels brought her high enough for easy entry, so as I lay back, she hip-thrust and quickly swallowed me fully inside her.

...

She stepped back, pulling herself off my still stiffened stiffness, grabbing it to give a quick tug, and slow, slick, sliding pull.

“Mmmm,” she said. “You have given me what no man has ever given me.”

“An orgasm?” I asked.

“That, too,” she said. ‘‘I have to go. But perhaps when you’ve finished your business, before you leave, you'll stop by my place and come inside for another visit?’’

‘‘I would like that,” I said.

“And by ‘come inside,’ I meant, ‘come inside my pussy.’’’

‘‘I got that. The agency has a class in double entendre. I earned a special commendation.”

“Stay away from Krabs Key,” she warned me, unexpectedly, suddenly deeply serious. ‘‘If you go there, you will die. No one goes there, and returns... alive.”

She reluctantly let go of me, and as I reached down to pull up my pants her eyes suddenly widened, blood leaking from a hole in the center of her chest that hadn’t been there before. Then another. Then another.

She collapsed into my arms and smiled. “I die, happy,” she said.

I kissed her gently, sweetly, as she did.

Tossing her body aside, I searched the room, and spotted a silenced gun disappearing out a back window.

...

She dropped her club, and picked up Gunter’s guns. “Damn,” she said, looking down at the fresh corpse. ‘‘l was hoping to make him anger fuck me while I killed Doctor Sin. Just goes to show how a day never ends like you think it will when it starts off. He was hot, too.”

“He wasn't that hot,” I said as if someone had kicked my PUPPY-

“Ooooh,” Juliet said, coming toward me with sympathetic eyes to caress my cheek through the bars. “ls someone jeawous? Is my widdle Trevow jeawous?”

“Eeew, don’t talk baby talk,’’ I said. “lt’s creepy when grown, naked women talk baby talk.’’

...

Sin stopped talking, and just stared. Stared at Juliet, looking for the life of me like a lost, little girl. “Horny, foul-mouthed, passionate, far from virginal Juliet,” Juliet said, more quietly, but far more intense, “and that meant he would never—could never—had never—ever— loved you. And for that sin—and that sin alone—l had to die.”

Sin stared at Juliet with glassy, unblinking eyes for a very long, very silent moment as the world seemed to sit frighteningly still on the point of a pin. “Yes,” Sin whispered, in the heart of that horrible stillness. Then she pulled her gun from its holster and shot my Juliet between the eyes.

....

“WAIT, WAIT, WAIT,” Jelena said. “Juliet DIES?” She studied my unblinking stare, and then seemed to genuinely want to cry. “NO!”

“But. . Pyotr said, horrified. “I thought Gran was Juliet.”

“Did anyone ever say that?” my wife asked. “Well, no, but...”

The room sat in silence for a long, stunned moment.

...

I CRADLED MY DEAD love in my arms, and wept. I didn’t care about the blood. I didn’t care about anything. There was no resuscitating her. No fixing the tunnel through her skull. No way to bring back the mischievous turquoise light in those loving, still-open eyes. The only thing I could do was cry.

...

We all ran and Ieapt into the vehicle, crawling over one another for the remaining seats. I noticed the giant rooster was standing aside, still holding Juliet’s body.

“There isn’t,” he said, ‘‘I say, there isn’t enough room for the both of us.”

“You can pile on top of...” I said, then realized. “Oh, you mean for both you and Juliet.”

I studied the forlorn birdman and understood his pain. I walked over to him, staring down into the face of my beloved Juliet. Her expression was beautiful, almost calm, serene. The wound in her forehead seemed smaller, less tragic with much of the blood wiped away, as if it were now just a puncture, or bump she’d gotten in some silly way. I found myself wishing she would open her eyes and say, ‘Oops. What did I walk into?’

“We can’t,” Rooster Man said, “I say, we can’t leave Miss Juliet behind. She loved you I say, she loved you so much.”

He was right, at least as far as I was concerned. I touched her cheek, then kissed her lips with love and sweetness, immediately regretting it.

“Ew,” I said, “that was gross. She’s cold, and already getting rigor. Not as romantic as it looks in the movies.”

...

I turned to the butler who had guided us upstairs. ‘‘Is there a good place near here to murder people?” I asked. ‘‘I have a license." “Wait,” Uncle said. “What?” “There’s a hunting shed at the back of the property,” the butler said, seeming quite happy to help. “Secluded, and the mess won’t matter."

...

“By ‘murder people’ you just mean him, right?” The supermodel asked. “Not me.”

“Oh, no, you’re a matched set,” I said.

“But...” she said, sputtering, “l’m a model!”

“She’ll sleep with you!” Uncle said, “And I have money!”

“Yes!” Supermodel said. “I’ll sleep with you!” “

He’s already sleeping with me,” Sunny said. “Exclusively. And you don’t have money,” she said to her ‘uncle.’ ‘‘I do.”

“You don’t mind that |’m going to murder them?” I asked Sunny-pretending-to-be-Juliet.

“No, I really don’t,” she said, sincerely, though she was obviously still getting used to the idea. “Who doesn’t love some therapeutic revenge porn, now and then, especially on such truly awful people?”

“I’m not as bad as him,” Supermodel said, rather huffily. “I don’t even really like him.”

“You flew down to an island to watch me be murdered in a game show.”

“Oh, my Gawwwwd,” Supermodel said. “You make it sound so much worse than it was.” “And how—exactly—could it not have been as bad as I just made it sound?”

“You could have won!” “Did you bet on me, or against me?”

SupermodeI’s mouth began the fish movement, as Sunny/the New Juliet stared at her a long, long while, then finally said to me; “Can I be the one to kill her?”

“Sure,” I said. And without another word being said—though there was lots of crying by some—we made our way to the hunting shed.

...

A few moments after that l was back at Central Visitor Control, walking past the redhead with a grin, and a wave as if nothing was wrong, I hadn’t just killed three men. The redhead was clearly startled to see me: her mouth opened wide in surprise, her right hand reaching behind a desk for a small weapon.

The gun was back in my hand and sneezed, she closed her mouth, toppled slowly backward as blood shot in a thin stream from between her lips."

Quick book summary:

It's basically Go Go Sadisto rather than the first Sadisto book (afaik, haven't read it and the people who have the books didn't bother posting them). We start with Juliette being trained as an agent, but rather than going around an eliminating a female Olympic team, we get a Dr. No pastiche, with Dr. Moreau and Jurassic Park thrown in. Then Trevor goes back to Sadisto to discover the FBI and CIA raiding the operation, assuring him that the whole thing was insane, and some time travel shenanigans.
 

Zufallx

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Any wonder why I'm somewhat obsessed with the Sadisto books (and why it's so hard to get your hands on the whole series)?
Active antiques dealer for over 25 years here, I can shed some light on the aspect of prices and availability...

Pulp books, or dime novels, from the 40's through the 60's were made on the cheap and sold on the cheap. Much like magazines and comic books of the time, they were read and tossed out. It wasn't uncommon for the books to come apart even before you were done reading them. Poor quality + disposability + taboo(ish) subject matter = low survivability x current demand = consistent high prices. Not even getting into the rabbit hole of why some in the same series, same publisher, same author would have had a print run of 10,000 while the next one would only be 2,000

But if you just want the stories, not the printed books: Kindle.

And if you think these get high, you should check out some 40's to early 50's sci-fi. 😮


TL,DR: They weren't made to last, nobody kept them and too many people today want them.
 

Drizzt78

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But if you just want the stories, not the printed books: Kindle.

And if you think these get high, you should check out some 40's to early 50's sci-fi. 😮


TL,DR: They weren't made to last, nobody kept them and too many people today want them.
Ah, sure. I want the stories, don't care about the physical books. And it seems weird that only a few stories from the same author and publisher are available. Particularly if (as the fan followup claims) they're in the public domain.

Kindle is pretty much the worst option for cut and pasting anywhere else. I'd obviously much rather have an epub file or a pdf.
 

Drizzt78

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From "Flashman and the Dragon" (Victorian England cad adventuring in 19th century China during the Taiping rebellion):

It was full night now, and we were thumping upstream with the Tsungming lights to starboard and the last warmth dying from the night wind. The great steerage deck, poorly lit, was littered with sleepers, and I was about to turn back, cursing, and wait until daylight, when I heard voices forward. I picked my way over the bodies and rounded the deckhouse in the bows, and my heart gave a lustful little skip—there was the slim, towering figure at the bow-rail, talking with a couple of Chinese rivermen; they turned to glower at me, and then the girl laughed and said something, and the Chinks melted into the dark, leaving the two of us alone under the bow-lamp. She lounged with her elbows on the rail—Jove, what a height she was, topping me by a good four inches. I stepped up to her, lustfully appraising the play of the superb muscles on the bare bangled arms, the lazy grace of the splendid body, and the sensuous hawk face above the strange chain collar. Aye, she was ready to play; it was in every line of her.

"Hiya, tall girl," says I, and she shot me an insolent, knowing look, like a vain tart.

"Gimme smoke, yao," says she, extending a palm. "Yao" is "foreigner", and not at all polite from a Chinese to a white man.

"The black smoke, or one of these?" I offered my cheroot
case, and the slant eyes flickered.

"A fan-qui who speaks Chinese? A cheroot, then." Certainly not a common woman; she spoke Pekin, albeit roughly. I lit her a cheroot, and she held my hand with the match in slender fingers whose grip made me tingle; not a whore's touch, though, just simple strength. She inhaled deeply—and so did I, gloating.

"Come to my cabin," says I, slightly hoarse, "and I'll give you a drink."

She showed her teeth, gripping the cheroot. "There's only one thing you want to give me," says she—and named it, anatomically.

"And right you are," says I, quite delighted. This was some-thing new in Chinese women—coarse, insolent, and to the point—so to show my own delicacy and good breeding I gripped her port tit; under the thin blouse it felt like a large, hard pineapple. She gave a little grunt, and a long, slow, wicked smile at me, drawing on her cheroot.

"How much cash?" says she, narrow-eyed.

"My dear child," says I, gallantly relinquishing her poont, "you don't have to pay me! Oh, I see … why, I wouldn't insult you by offering money!" Wouldn't I, though—I was boiling fit to offer her the Bank, but I guessed it wouldn't answer with this one, in spite of her question. She had a damned leery look in her eye, sensual and calculating, but with a glint of amusement, unless I was mistaken.

"No cash, hey? But you expect me to --?" Her vocabulary was deplorable, but at least it left no room for misunderstanding.

"That's the ticket," says I heartily, "so instead of further flirtation I suggest that we —"

Suddenly she chuckled, and then laughed outright, with her head back and everything quivering to distraction. I was pre-paring to spring when she came up off the rail, bangles tinkling, and stood looking down at me, the ogre's missus contemplating a randy Jack-the-Giant-Killer. It's a rum feeling, I can tell you, being surveyed by a beauty half a head taller than you are. Stimulating, though.

"Suppose," says she, in that soft deep voice, "that I took payment? I might rob a rich fan-qui."

"You might try, Miranda. Now then —"

"Yes, I might. And if you, big clever fan-qui, caught me …" She put her hands on her hips, with that lazy smile. "… you might beat a poor girl—would you beat me, fan-qui?"

"With pleasure," says I, slavering at the prospect. She nodded, glanced either way, gave me her insolent grin again, drew deep on the cheroot—and pulled the front of her blouse down to her waist.

For a moment I stood rooted, hornily agog before all that magnificent meat, and then, as any gentleman would have done, I seized one in either hand, nearly crying. Which was absolutely as the designing bitch had calculated—she suddenly gripped my elbows, I instinctively jerked them down to my sides, and without stooping, or shoulder movement, or the least exertion at all, she lifted me clean off the deck! I was too dumbfounded to do anything but dangle while she held me (thirteen-stone-odd, bigod!) with only the strength of her forearms under my rigid elbows, grinned up into my face, and spoke quietly past the cheroot:

"Would you really beat a poor girl, fan-qui?"

Then before I could reply, or hack her shins, or do anything sensible, she straightened her arms upwards, holding me helpless three feet up in the air, before abruptly letting go. I came down cursing and stumbling, clutching at the deckhouse for support. By the time I'd recovered my balance, she was modestly replacing her blouse, taking a last pull at the cheroot, and flicking it over the rail. She put a hand on her hip, grinning derisively, while I seethed with rage and shame—and awe at the realisation of that appalling strength.

"All right, then, damn you!" I snarled. "Twenty dollars? Fifty if you'll stay the night!"

God, how she laughed, the strutting, arrogant slut—and she'd lifted me like a kitten! I don't know when I've felt so mortified—or so determined to have my way with a woman. Well, it wasn't going to be rape, that was sure—nor money, apparently.

"Fifty dollars?" She laughed. "No, fan-qui—nor fifty thou-sand, from a weakling. But a strong man, now …" She waited, with that taunting, confident smile, daring me, as I fell to raging at her and then to whining, saying it had been a trick, she'd taken an unfair advantage, damn her … and then I gave a great gasp, like Billy Bones in apoplexy, rolled my eyes, clutched my heart, and reeled fainting against the deckhouse … well, she'd not have been human if she hadn't stepped up for a closer look, would she?

I bar hitting women, except for fun, especially when they're strong enough to uproot the town hall clock, but I was choking with vengeful fury—toss me about like thistledown, would she, the infernal slut? I let out a whimpering groan, and as she advanced, alarmed, I let drive my right into her midriff with all my force; she doubled up like a rag doll, her knees buckling, and I was on her back in an instant, twisting the chain collar like a garotte, flattening her by sheer weight. She clawed back at me over her shoulder, and I shot my left hand under her arm and on to the nape of her neck in a half-nelson. I was blind with rage and fit to murder, and if she'd been less abominably powerful I might have done it. But as she heaved and strained beneath me it was all I could do to hang on, doing my damnedest to choke her with the steel links biting into her throat. We thrashed and rolled about the deck, her long legs flailing; thumping against the bulkhead, then against the rail, my aching fingers twisting the collar ever tighter, her splendid shoulders heaving to break my grip—God, she was strong, and I knew in a few seconds she must break the lock.

I gave one last despairing heave on the collar, and suddenly felt her slacken beneath me; her head gave a little beneath my left hand, and I roared with triumph. Suddenly her free hand was slapping the deck, in the age-old wrestler's submission; I clung to the chain like grim death.

"Had enough, damn you?" I wheezed. "Give over, you bloody monster?" Slap-slap, on the deck, I let the collar slacken an inch—and suddenly she reared up, breaking the headlock and tearing the collar free. I rolled away, preparing to fly for my life, when I realised she was scrambling back, holding her throat, her other hand up to ward her face. Was she beat? Was this the moment to set about her with my belt?—and then I realised that she was poised on one knee, ready for battle … and she was absolutely grinning at me, bright-eyed … and we were no longer alone.

The unholy row had attracted half Kiangsu Province, by the look of it, certainly every coolie on the steerage deck, and a ragged mob was staring from either side of the deck house, with her Chinese rivermen to the fore, looking mighty truculent. As they pressed forward I put my back to the rail, reaching for the Adams—which I'd forgotten until that moment. The sight of it stopped them dead, the rivermen's hands came away from their knife-hilts—and the girl stood up, her shoulders shuddering and heaving, and grunted something in river dialect. Then she looked at me, gasping and rubbing her throat, and so help me, she was grinning again, positively amiable.

Tuckered as I was, I wondered bemusedly if that murderous struggle had been the usual courting ritual of this female Goliath; lust revived as I observed her fine dishevelment, with one udder peeping provocatively out of her blouse; I put up the Adams, scowled back at the mob, and then jerked my head at her. She grinned broader than ever, taking in great breaths and rubbing her throat, but then she shook her head.

"Good-night … fan-qui," says she, pretty hoarse, and then she turned and disappeared into the staring rabble behind her. Truth to tell, I didn't much mind; I was bruised and exhausted, and another bout would have carried me off; if that was what she was like merely fighting for her life, God knew how she'd behave in amorous ecstasy. I straightened my coat and pushed through the crowd, marveling at the minds (and bodies) of women—treat 'em civilised, and they swing you round their heads; strangle 'em, and suddenly they're all for you. Because there was no doubt about it, now; she fancied me. It's all a matter of the proper approach.
 

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""Great," I said. "You wait here, honey, I'll walk up and get a case of Scotch."

"Goody, I love Scotch. Why don't you take my car, Tex? It's too far to walk."

That was what I wanted her to suggest, of course I could drive her car until it ran out of gas and then start hitching.

"Fine, honey," I said. I bent over and kissed her, squeezing the mounds of her breasts. She looked real great lying on the bed, her eyes softened with muted passion. She'd be a nice enough one all right-if only she didn't talk so damn much.

In the front room I dressed fast, picked up ha car keys and then, quietly, flipped open her handbag I didn't bother with her change, just took the three tens I found in her wallet and another ten I found crumpled and loose

"Tex! What are you doing"

I swore softly and swung around. She was standing in the doorway leading to the bedroom, staring at me in stunned surprise. Damn. A thousand times damn. I'd been sure she'd be content to just lie there on the bed until I came back.

Which would have been never.

But no, she had to get up and start snooping.

I tried a foolish grin "Bet you thought I was robbing your purse," I said "What I was checking the serial numbers of your folding money-I figured they'd be lucky numbers for us to play tonight, you know-"

"You lousy thief"

Well, it'd been a poor excuse and I hadn't expected her to believe it. To hell with her. All I was worried about was whether she was going to start screaming. The last thing I needed now was trouble with the cops. Any cops...

Her face was red with anger, her big breasts heaving. And fortunately she was too mad to think of screaming right then, too busy calling me names.

Which gave me the time I needed. Time enough to take three quick steps towards her. All at once she was scared, then. Her mouth opened in a wide red O all set to scream bloody murder.

Instead she made a gasping, wheezing sound as I slammed my fist hard into her belly, driving all the breath out of her. The force of my blow slammed her against the wall, and then she slid down to the floor gasping and clutching her stomach.

I saw all this through a haze of anger. I was blazing mad, crazy mad. All I'd need was a few extra seconds and I'd have gotten away clean-she'd never have thought to check her purse, not for hours, not until I was miles away.

Only she'd had to walk in and catch me-walk in and start trouble. The dirty little tramp.

She pushed herself up with one arm, turned to look at me. I guess she saw the rage on my face because all of a sudden her face turned white with fear.

I picked up the empty Scotch bottle by the neck, slammed it against a table and thrust the broken shards within an inch of her throat.

"I'll kill you if you scream," I said softly. "I'll kill you real slow, as painfully as I can do it. And I can be real painful."

In point of fact, I've never actually killed anyone-male or female-with a broken bottle. But Dolores didn't have any way of knowing that. She believed me. She began to shake with fear.

"Get up," I said. "Get up-unless you want me to change my mind and kill you anyway."

She got up. Slowly and unsteadily, but up. Her eyes were wide pools of fear, and involuntary tremors were running up her body.

I held the bottle low and thrust it out until it was just barely touching her belly.

"I'm leaving now," I said "With the forty bucks you were kind enough to lend me. And after I walk out that door you're going to forget all about me. forget I ever existed. Right?"

She nodded slowly, her eyes on the jagged edged bottle shards pointing towards the soft, flesh of her stomach.

"Because if you don't," I went on, "if you call the cops and set them on me, I'll kill you. A month from now, a year from now. ten years from now. However long it takes me to find you."

I shoved very gently with the bottle, hard enough to prick her flesh, not quite hard enough to draw blood. Her eyes now were two pools of stark terror.

Of course I was bluffing. Even if she turned me in, even if I went to jail for a few months, I sure as hell wasn't going to spend my life tracking down a tramp like Dolores-for revenge or any other purpose.

But Dolores had no way of knowing that For all she knew I might be a homicidal maniac And if she had any sense at all she wasn't going to risk her life just to get forty bucks back.

"I won't call the cops," she whispered. "Honest I won't, Tex."

"Good," I said. "You've just bought yourself a long life." I tossed the broken bottle aside Her shoulders sagged slightly from relief She thought I was all through, the dumb broad.

She thought that, that is, until my left fist slammed into her belly-then she squawked and doubled over. My right fist slammed into her jaw and she fell sprawling on the floor, out cold.

I stood over her for a few moments, fists cocked, waiting to make sure she was really unconscious Then, slowly, the anger drained out of me and I lowered my fists.

I felt a little sick suddenly To hell with it. I hadn't really hurt her bad. She'd have a bruised jaw and a sore belly for a few days, nothing more.

And as for 'borrowing' her forty bucks-what the hell. She'd undoubtedly swindled ten times that much out of guys like me. Besides, I needed the money more than she did.

Just to make sure she remembered the advice I'd given her I rummaged in her handbag until I found her lipstick. I drew a big red X on the creamy bowl of her up-turned belly Then, on one white washed wall, I wrote X marks the spot where you get it in you make trouble.

Then I turned and walked out."

.......

Another thing I learned, that week, was that Gwen hadn't been kidding when she'd said Hudson Ford went In big for sex and violence.

The scenes he was shooting on location were all concerned with the big battle that was the climax of the movie, where the bad guys and their friends the Indians were being held off at the pass by the gun toting dance hall girls.

The way the script read-Gwen dug me up a copy and explained how to read the camera directions-they kept cutting back and forth between long shots of dozens of attackers storming the fort and close-ups of individual dance hall girls battling with individual bod guys.

But the way they were shooting the movie-they being Hudson Ford and the bald headed guy Bernard, who was the assistant director-all the long shots were going to be photographed during the last ten days on location. At that time they were going to bring in a few more bus loads of extras.

The idea being, of course, not to have a lot of extras standing around doing nothing most of the time and drawing salary Meanwhile they were shooting all the close-ups of fighting, where dance hall girls were in hand to hand combat with the baddies.

And just about every fight was sexy or gory or both They must have used up hundreds of gallons of phony blood every day It was kind of funny at first, the way-after a few hours of filming-Bernard would go dashing off yelling "More blood' More blood!" and some guy from make-up would come trotting up with another five gallon can of gore.

He didn't have to yell for more sex-the sex was always right at hand, in the shape of a dozen or more ripe bodied dance hall girls.

For some reason that the script didn't explain, all of the dance hall girls had gone dashing off to fight the bad guys in their working costumes. And what costumes.

Each of the costumes were different, and sometimes when the girls would be all sitting around waiting for the next take I'd just sit there, sort of drooling, and try to decide which was the sexiest.

The sexiest costume, that is. All of the girls were sexy Some of the costumes were cut very low in front-and I mean low. The cleavage dived almost to the waist line, so that not only could you clearly see the top third or more of each girl's breasts, but most of the inner surfaces as well.

Other costumes had high neck lines. But they were just as sexy because they were almost transparent In fact, the part that covered the girls' breasts were transparent. except for a few sequins that covered the nipples.

And all of the costumes were skin tight. At the start of the 'battle the girls had fluffy can-can skirts attached, but as the battle raged the girls either pulled them off because they got. in the way, or else some Indian or bad guy ripped them off.

So by the final scenes the girls were wearing what looked like one piece bathing suits, black lace stockings, and nothing else.

For the first few days I was in cowboy costume, and all I got to do was jump horses over barricades and fire off blanks at the girls from a distance.

Then one morning I got orders to report to makeup and get sprayed bronze. I was going to be an Indian for a couple of days. And brother, did that make me happy. Because the Indians were the ones who got to do the hand-to-hand grappling with the dance hall girls. The nearly naked dance hall girls.

Did I have a ball! Take the scene I did that first morning, as an 'Indian." I was supposed to vault my horse over a low stone wall-part of the ruined fort the girls were supposed to be defending-rein my horse to a halt, let out a war whoop, fling down my rifle, pull out a hunting knife (made of rubber) and fling myself at a dance hall girl. Then we both fell back into a pile of hay and wrestled for possession of the knife-me winning.

Pretty goofy tactics for a real Indian, of course. I mean, if I'd been an Indian in real life it'd made more sense to simply lever a new shell into my carbine and shoot the dance hall girl in the stomach.

Or, if the carbine was empty, to have cracked her over the skull with it.

But I wasn't about to argue.

Not when I was being paid to wrestle with a deep chested, two-thirds naked girl-with me nine-tenths naked, since the 'Indians' in the movie only wore loin cloths.

No sir.

The girl must have noticed the gleam in my eye, because she began to chew her lip nervously while Bernard-he was directing this particular scene-gave us last minute instructions.

"Look." she said to me when Bernard finished, "don't get carried away and jump at me too hard."

I grinned at her. She was a tawny-haired, long limbed teen-ager with a thirty-eight inch chest, thirty seven inches of which were in plain view.

I chucked her lightly under her starboard chest emblem. It quivered like a bowl of vanilla jelly. "Don't worry, sugar." I told her. "You've got built-in cushioning."

And with that I got on my horse, galloped off, galloped back and over the fence, flung away my rifle.

And jumped her.

My nearly nude body slammed into her nearly nude torso, and into the hay we rolled in a tangle of thrashing legs and bobbing. And there we wrest led. happily.

At least I was happy. The girl I'd flung myself at looked kind of pooped-I guess I'd knocked most of the wind out of her. But she was a real trouper, that girl, and she struggled and writhed with spirit.

It was a temptation to just lie quietly on top of her, enjoying the delicious sensation of her nearly naked body writhe and twist beneath me. But I remembered to wrestle back and make snarling Indian noises.

As it was, though, I wrestled for too long before I remembered I was supposed to stab her with my rubber knife and did so.

Because when I wrestle with a ripe bodied teenager in a pile of hay it just isn't natural for me to think about stabbing her.

Not with a knife, at least.

So we did the scene over. And over. All told we did the scene seven times, with time out for the big breasted chick to rest and get her costume repaired.

Finally Bernard was happy, and said that was it, and he and the camera crew and everybody trooped off to a new location.

Everybody, that is, but me and the deep-chested girl. We just sat on the mound of hay, panting.

"You swine," gasped the girl, when she had enough of her breath back to talk. "I'll be black and blue for a week."

I shrugged. "Hell, honey. I tried to jump you as gently as possible each time But that's a tall horse I had to jump off You've got to expect a few bruise?"

The girl glared at me. "You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about all the feelings up and squeezings you were giving me while we were supposed to be wrestling."

She stood up and tugged angrily at the neckline of her costume. The thin fabric ripped instantly, and two creamy globes of flesh sprang into full view, bobbing crimson, fully erect nipples in my face.

"I know what you were doing, all right." she gasped, tugging the costume down past her hips. "You were trying to get me all worked up." She gave the costume a final tug and it ripped completely loose, leaving her totally naked except for her net stockings.

She didn't bother ripping those off Instead she ripped of my loin cloth. Then she flung herself down on the hay, arms and legs spread wide.

"And damn it," she gasped "you succeeded. I am worked up. Now, finish what you started, you bastard."

"Honey," I said, "I don't know if I have the strength to jump you again." But even while I was talking I was falling eagerly on to the soft shapely mattress of her body, and in a matter of seconds we were wrestling again.


.........

Come on, Alice, I murmured You've washed the sweat off your body by now. Come on back to shore.

Back to your doom.

Almost as if she heard me she turned and began to make her way toward me. I hated her more than I'd ever hated anyone in my life, but I wouldn't have been human if I hadn't gasped in sheer appreciation of bar beauty as she walked nude up onto the shore the drops of water falling from her exquisite body like so many diamonds in the moonlight.

She walked straight toward me-her clothes were almost at my feet-humming some tune I didn't recognize. Then, at last, she saw me and her body jerked as if from a blow, and she screamed.

Not a loud scream, but a rabbit-like shriek of panic. For a long moment she stared at me wide-eyed, frozen in a half crouch, as if poised for flight. Then she sank slowly to her knees. Whether because her legs wouldn't hold her upright or because she thought she'd look more pitiful, more worthy of mercy in my eyes I didn't know Or care.

I stood up and walked over to grin down at her. She sank back onto her haunches.

"Tex," she whispered. "Oh God. Oh God!"

"Scared, Alice?" I inquired. "You should be. I'm going to kill you, you know."

She shook her head, dumbly. No.

I nodded my head, grinning Yes.

It was still hot, even that late at night but I noticed (with relish) that she was shivering now. almost uncontrollably.

"The only question I haven't quite decided," I went on, "is how I'm going to kill you. Perhaps you have some ideas on that score, some bright suggestions to make You were always a good one for making bright suggestions, weren't you?"

"Tex," she whispered, "let me talk. Let me talk for just five minutes. I can explain, I can-"

She broke off as I raised my boot as if to kick her. "As I was saying," I continued "there are a number of possibilities I'd prefer to simply choke you, slowly But that would lead to tedious complications. Like a murder investigation.

"So it has to look like an accident. That narrows the choice down quite a bit. The one I like best is to entangle one of your feet in a stirrup, then let your precious black stallion gallop back to camp dragging you behind him."

Alice closed her eyes and a shudder ran through her "But it's not easy to entangle a foot in a stirrup-and I can't very well tie your foot in place, can I? So it looks like you're going to be lucky. You're going to drown. They'll think it a tragic accident. Poor Loreli, swimming alone-a sudden cramp-and glug glug.

"Yes, you're going to be lucky. Though not too lucky, of course. I'm going to take my time about drowning you." I grinned down at her. Not a wasted gesture, even though her eyes were still tightly closed: I knew I was grinning. "Now," I said, "I believe you want to spend your last five minutes on earth trying to explain. Go right ahead. But don't take too long. Five minutes of self justification is all I'm going to allow.

Then glug glug."

She opened her eyes and two tears streaked her cheeks, glittering brightly in the moonlight.

"I-I can't justify myself, Tex," she said her voice almost a whisper. "What I did was-inexcusable. Unforgivable. I can only beg for mercy. On my knees."

"Application for mercy received and rejected," I said. "Keep talking."

She gulped. "I betrayed your trust, Tex. I cheated you, swindled you. And the only excuse I can offer is that. I-I had to do it. All my life I'd longed to be an actress, a big star. When you took me in, asked me to marry you, I tried to adjust to your way of life-honestly I did. But it was no go. I just couldn't face a lifetime of sheep-dip and anthrax vaccine, of sweating and fretting over a few smelly cattle."

"So you cleaned me out."

"I cleaned you out. I didn't think it'd be the end of the world for you. I'd thought you'd climb your way back up in a few years. It wasn't all that much money-sixteen thousand all told."

"Yeah," I said. "Not very much money. And I admit it wasn't much of a ranch. But it was all I had, Alice. It was the nucleus I was going to build on. What did you do with the money, by the way?"

"A ticket to Hollywood. Acting lessons. Singing lessons. Dancing lessons. Bribes to agents to get me parts, more bribes to casting directors. The money gave me the edge I needed, Tex. I could devote all my time to getting ahead-I could afford clothes that would get me noticed-a car that people looked twice at."

"A grubstake," I said bitterly.

"Yes! A grubstake. And it paid off Tex I did make the grade. I'm a star now-not a very big one, but a star. And my career's just starting."

"Yeah," I said, "I hear you're Hudson Ford's mistress now."

She winced a little, but she held her eyes steady on mine. "Yes, I'm his mistress. I never pretended to be a very nice person, did I? Remember how I warned you I wasn't the right girl for you?"

Silence while she waited for me to say something. I said nothing.

She gulped again and went on talking. "Yes, I'm his mistress-because he can help me get ahead But I was already on my way up when I met him-thanks to your-grubstake."

"It's customary to repay grubstakes." I told her "Or hadn't you heard of that old Western custom?"

Her eyes opened very wide. "But Tex, I tried! The first big money I got-" she counted on her fingers "-seven months after I left you. I sent a cashier's check to you care General Delivery at that awful little town near the ranch."

"My home town," I noted dryly.

She nodded "Your home town. I was sure you'd still be there Then I hired a private detective to find you-but he couldn't No one knew where you were, just that you d gotten roaring drunk and then left town. There was nothing I could do, Tex. Just six months ago I had the detective try again. But there was no trace of you."

I laughed. "You expect me to believe that-that you'd willingly pay back the money you'd stolen?"

She nodded her head frantically, a motion that set her ripe, dark-tipped breasts to bobbing in an interesting manner. "Yes! And if you've any sense at all you'll know why. I wanted to pay you back Tex, of course-but there was another reason, too. I was scared stiff."

"Scared?"

"Of course. I knew that sooner or later you'd see one of my movies-or my picture in a magazine And then you'd come after me. To threaten me. To blackmail me To ruin me." She broke down and sobbed. Deep, body wracking sobs. Not so many years ago the sound would have torn my heart out.

Now I sneered.

I sneered, but I did some thinking, too. I was in a position to blackmail her-ruin her Maybe not later, when she got to be a really big star (if she lived), but certainly now. when she was on her way up.

If I filed charges against her she'd be arrested, sent to jail. And that would finish her. A really big star could fight almost any charge, hire big-shot lawyers tike that fellow what's-his-name in California, and most likely come out on top.

But she wasn't a big star, yet. She was on her way up. And vulnerable.

Maybe the smart thing to do was to blackmail her, get my own back. It would mean postponing my revenge, though. Still, I could always fix her some way later, after I'd gotten a big chunk of dough out of her. It was worth thinking about, at least.

I thought about it. I liked the idea "Alice," I said, "or should I call you Loreli now? Alice, it's just barely possible we might do business. So talk to me. Talk to me about money."

Her eyes snapped wide open. You could see the hope flooding back into her face. "Oh. yes, Tex!" she gasped, and started to scramble to her feet.

At which exact moment I kicked her as hard as I could in the stomach. She made a gasping, retching noise and flopped over backward into the shallow water.

I was on her instantly, straddling her waist, my hands on her shoulders pushing her down, down under the surface, I held her down a long time, grinning at her face that, twisted with fear, stared up wildly, unseeingly at me from under water.

I held her down until the bubbles from her mouth started to slow down. Then I let her up-just high enough to catch a breath-and pushed her under again. More futile struggles. More bubbles. And again up. And down.

I repeated the dose five times.

Then I let go and climbed off her. My clothes were soaking wet but what the hell. It was a hot night any way. Loreli crawled slowly toward dry land, choking, gasping and retching water.

I waited for her I waited patiently until she'd coughed or spat up all the water that was in her.

Then I kicked her in the stomach again, though not quite so hard this time She let out an agonized sound-half moan and half scream, and flopped over on her back

I stood grinning down at her while she clutched her belly, her face twisted with suffering It was a full minute before she could talk I waited.

"I-I thought-you wanted-to talk ' she gasped

........


I opened the door wide and smiled at her. A brunette, and as ripe bodied as they come with full, sullen lips that seemed vaguely familiar. I must have kissed them once. But where and when?

And then the smile froze on my face, because all at once I remembered. Near Las Vegas. A year ago. The waitress I'd robbed and beaten.

Dolores...

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

She shoved purposefully forward. I stepped back to let her in. Closed the front door behind her Hell, there was no sense talking in front of the neighbors or slamming the door in her face.

Not until I found out just what she had in mind, at least Money, most likely. She'd seen me on television, recognized me as the guy who'd swiped her-how much had it been?-oh, yeah, forty bucks-and decided to collect.

With most likely a little interest to compensate for the beating up I'd given her.

I reflected for an instant on the irony of life. I'd soared to fame and fortune through blackmailing Loreli-and now I was about to be blackmailed in turn.

But with one big difference I'd really had the goods on Loreli. I could have proved by a dozen witnesses that she'd stolen my ranch.

Dolores on the other hand couldn't prove a thing. There'd been no witnesses when I'd swiped her dough and beaten the stuffing out of her. It was her word against mine. The testimony of a two-bit waitress against a rising Western star.

Hell, I had nothing to worry about. I could toss her out on her fanny right now, and there wouldn't be a thing she could do. Or else, simply to avoid a scene, slip her a hundred bucks and then send her packing.

Still, it might be as well to play things cautiously, at least until she'd spoken her piece.

Dolores, meanwhile, was staring admiringly around my living room, her mouth practically watering from greed as she took in my expensive furnishings.

Finally she turned and sneered at me. "Long time no see, huh, Tex?"

Well, from an uneducated slut like her I guess I couldn't hope for more original dialogue.

I was about to open my mouth to tell her to get to the point when I noticed that a look of startled uncertainty had flashed across her sullen features. I realized why almost instantly-she'd gotten her first good look at my hair.

In the movie I was playing the twin role in, the only way the 'twins' differed-aside from their personalities-was the color of their hair. I played the evil twin with my natural, dark hair-and the good twin with my hair dyed blond. And right now I was a blond, a fact which was obviously puzzling Dolores' feeble brain.

Which gave me an inspiration. Why not continue the 'twin' role in real life?

I smiled at Dolores sympathetically. "I'm not Tex, my dear. I'm, uh, Leroy. But I don't blame you for confusing us. We're identical twins, of course-except for the hair."

Dolores looked uncertain.

"Sit down, my dear," I said. "Let me get yon a drink Then you can tell me-if you wish to-what it is you want to see Tex about."

I poured two drinks handed her one. She still looked a little dubious and uncertain, but she took it and sat down.

"Actually." I went on, keeping my voice melodious and a bit fruity, "you don't need to tell me what-what Tex did to you. I fear I can guess only too well. You're not. I'm sorry to say the first girl who has come pounding on the door in distress."

"I'm not?"

I shook my head. "Far from it." I leaned toward her sympathetically. "How far along are you my dear?"

She choked on her drink. "Hell, I ain't pregnant," she protested. "Do I look it?" she gestured at her flat belly.

"Uh. no," I said "come to think of it It's just that-well, I've come to expect, uh accidents of that sort where Tex is concerned." I sighed and passed a weary hand across my brow. "I don't know why he can't respect women, the way I do-but no. Tex has to slap them around, impregnate them, give them-as he puts it-a hard time."

"You can say that again," agreed Dolores But her eyes were still just a shade suspicious. "I never read nothing in the movie magazines about Tex having a twin."

I smiled. A sad, ironic smile. "Of course not. Tex likes to keep me in-in the shadows. He's a very vain man, you know. He hates the thought of my sharing the spotlight with him."

I got up and refilled Dolores' glass.

"And so I'm relegated to a mere stand-in role in his movies." I treated her to a short, bitter laugh. "A mere flunkey.

"Ironic, isn't it," I continued, "that I, who was born to be an actor, should have struggled for years and years in Hollywood without success-only to see my no good twin brother rocketed to fame almost by accident. Why him, I keep asking myself. Why not me?" I was beginning to enjoy myself. Also, I had Dolores just about convinced she was talking to a creep named Leroy.

"I guess maybe you're a bit too siss-uh-gentlemanly for the kind of roles he plays," she suggested. "But how come you let him push you around? Why don't you make him give you parts in his movies?"

I shut my eyes tight. "Because," I hissed, "the swine has me completely in his power. He-he's blackmailing me for a youthful but criminal indiscretion." I opened my eyes and clenched my fists. "How I hate that rotten, no-good brother of mine."

Dolores got up and refilled her drink.

"I don't feel so kindly toward him myself," she confided.

I gave her a sweet, sympathetic smile. "Tell me what the brute did to you, my dear. Perhaps I can help in seeing that you get what's coming to you."

She hesitated, then nodded her head. "Okay. It-it all happened about a year ago. We met kind of casually-informally, I should say."

Informal was right. I'd picked her up.

"One night we were having a date," she went on, "and we stopped by my house for a quick drink first. I guess I should have known better-but, well I trusted him."

"He's a scheming devil," I agreed. "He seduced you, huh?"

"Oh, no!" protested Dolores, blinking her eyes in feigned innocence. "I'd never have let that happen. What he did was rip off all my clothes and rape me."

The lying bitch. But I pretended to listen sympathetically.

"Well," continued Dolores, "after 'he'd raped me-brutally raped me-he stole all my money. About, uh, four hundred dollars."

"Tsk, tsk," I commented.

"You ain't heard nothing yet." Dolores assured me. "After he raped me and robbed me-then he started beating me up. With his fists and a broken bottle."

Another lie. I'd only used the broken bottle to scare her with. I'd used only my fists on her. Aloud I said, "How simply ghastly!"

Dolores nodded. "Finally he knocked me out-left me lying on the floor bleeding to death."

What an imagination. All I'd done was plant a fist in her belly and then clip her lightly on the chin. Naturally she was going to exaggerate things a bit, I'd expected that. But 'bleeding to death on the floor'-that was too much.

Still, the important thing was that as I'd already figured out she didn't have a shred of evidence to back up her story.

"And that was the last you saw of him?" I inquired.

She nodded. "The cops put out a big alarm, threw up road blocks and all that, but they never caught him."

I was so startled I almost did a double take. I'd never figured that she might have called the cops-she'd been in too much terror that night, too much fear of what I'd do to her in revenge later.

"Course I didn't know that at the time," she went on. "Being unconscious at the hospital and all. They had to give me a whole flock of blood transfusions on account of I was just about dead from all the bleeding I'd done."

I stared at her. "But I didn't-I mean, I didn't think Tex was the sort to cut someone up or stab them. I just don't-"

I stopped. Dolores had risen to her feet and was fumbling with her blouse. She tugged it loose from her skirt, then turned her back toward me and pulled the blouse up so's I could see her bare shoulders and back.

There was an ugly, jagged round scar close to her backbone.

"See that?" she demanded. "That's where he cut me with the broken bottle-before leaving me to die."

A cold chill began to creep through me. Because suddenly I knew what must have happened. I'd broken a bottle, to frighten her, and then tossed it aside later. But I'd forgotten about the broken glass that had resulted from the initial breaking.

The heel of the bottle must have been lying unnoticed on the floor-with the jagged shards pointing up. And when I'd clipped Dolores on the chin and she'd landed flat on her back, out cold, it had been just her dumb luck that the jagged heel of the bottle was right under her. No wonder she'd almost bled to death.

.......



"My dear girl," I said, in a friendly but patronizing tone of voice, "let me spell things out for you. First, there is no question but that you have a very good case against, uh, my brother Tex. You can really put the screws on him."

Dolores nodded happily, her over-sized breasts bobbing up and down in tempo. But I wasn't interested in those dual mountains of hers. Not right then.

"However," I continued, "you must realize that my brother Tex-who's in Mexico for the next few days, by the way-my brother Tex is a harsh, violent man. A man who would not shrink from murder-if he thought he could get away with it. To put it another way, since you have it in your power to smash Tex-Tex might try to smash you first.

"That's why I say you should safeguard yourself. First, you should write out a letter naming Tex as your assailant, and leave the letter with someone who will mail it to the police in the event of your death. Second, you should tell several people that you've, uh, got the goods on Tex. And third, you should never call on him unless someone knows that you have entered his house-someone who'll yell for the cops if you don't show up again. Now have you taken these simple but vital precautions?"

Dolores shook her head slowly. "Gee, no. I mean, I never figured there was any chance of him trying any-thing-him being a big movie star and all."

"Tsk, tsk," I said. "You mean to tell me that if you should suddenly drop dead for any reason, there'd be nothing to link up Tex Carlin with the now nameless tramp who beat up a waitress in Las Vegas a year ago and almost killed her?"

She thought about that. "Gee," she said, "I guess not." She thought some more. Obviously it was an effort for her: her brow was deeply wrinkled and her tongue protruded slightly. "I guess," she said, "I took an awful risk coming here. I mean, if Tex had been here alone instead of you he might have-have murdered me!" I nodded my head solemnly. "Not might have, my dear. Would have."

She stood up, thereby cutting off my view of her bare thighs. On the other hand I now had a clear view of her wide, flaring hips beneath the too tight skirt she was wearing, and the blouse she had on was cut low enough so that the better part of her breasts were visible.

"Don't go just yet," I urged her. "I've got all evening to kill. Have another drink."

She had another drink. And another. We talked. Her blouse came off somehow. We drank. We kissed. We talked some more. Her skirt joined the blouse. We kissed again and drank again. My clothes came off. Our naked bodies touched, teased, meshed, rocked, bucked and reared together in a sliding, slipping, frenzied tangle of passion. A gasp, a groan, a final frantic trip-hammering-and then an arc of living fire welding two bodies into one.

She groaned and twisted under me.

"Oh, Leroy, oh! Darling!"

"Yeah. Yeah." The dumb broad sure had her brains misplaced. I could give a good guess as to where they were, but one thing was sure-they weren't in her skull. "OH!"

"Yeah, baby." And it was over.

I rested a bit to get my strength back.

Then I killed her.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

The way I see it, I simply had no choice Dolores had a loaded gun pointed at my head, and there are some people you just can't trust with loaded guns.

I killed her quickly and painlessly with a judo chop to the neck. Undoubtedly she never knew what hit her She died with her mouth open, in the middle of a sentence. She had had, I remembered, the bad habit of talking too much.

You might think that it was a pretty dumb trick, killing her in my own house. And ordinarily it would have been. Ordinarily I would have planned to do her in some place far. far away.

But I had no time for fancy planning-and a golden opportunity such as I had that evening would never occur again.

She d been just a bit surprised when, after the third drink. I'd begun to love her up. Maybe I'd made the mythical character of Leroy. Tex's twin brother, a hit too sissy-but she'd warmed up fast.

Obviously she'd figured that it would be a good idea to get on the best side of this agreeable brother of Tex, this jerk who was going to help her with her blackmail scheme. So I let her get on my best side-my best side for women being underneath me when I'm facing down.

It was quite a modest blackmail scheme, too. All she wanted was half the money Tex earned for the rest of his life. But along with this piece of intelligence I learned a couple of encouraging bits of information.

The first was confirmation of something I was already pretty sure of-she'd told no one about being in a position to blackmail me. As soon as she'd recognized me on TV she'd quit her job and bought a ticket to L. A. on impulse.

The second was that she hadn't yet checked into a hotel-just checked her suitcase at the bus terminal.

Even if she had taken a hotel room, it wouldn't necessarily have meant trouble. More people than you'd think just walk away from hotels leaving suitcases behind. Most likely, when she failed to return, the hotel would simply have slung her suitcase into a storage room and forgotten about it.

All the same, it was a tempting added inducement for murder.

And consider the inducements I already had:

She was the only person in the world who could finger me to the Las Vegas cops.

No one knew she was in my house.

And she lay naked and defenseless before me.

Naturally I'd killed her. The temptation had been too great to resist.

Nor was getting rid of her body going to be the nuisance it might have been-thanks to the half completed swimming pool which was in the process of being filled in.

I simply slung her over my shoulder and carried her out to my back yard. I say 'simply', but actually it was quite a chore. Dolores had been-and still was-a heavy bodied girl; she must have weighed close to a hundred and forty pounds.

Add to that the fact that she'd perspired freely during the frenzied climax of our love making, and was still coated with sweat-and you can appreciate the trouble I had in lugging my heavy, slippery burden outside.

Right then I realized I'd made at least one mistake in executing the murder-I should have gotten Dolores to walk outdoors under her own power, and then killed her.

However that was a minor matter. The important thing was that it was dark night, I had no neighbors closer than half a mile, and no one saw me dump her limp body into the semi-filled excavation and shovel several hundred pounds of earth on top of her.

It took me less than half an hour to do the whole job. Then I strolled back inside, showered and cleaned up. and poured myself a stiff drink. I felt I'd earned one.


..........


His damn cigar was out again, and I had to wait while he relit it. "The exact percentage-it will be a sliding percentage-we will fix later. After the two of us have had a chance to scrutinize your income and expenses. Fear not, however, that my tax will bleed you dry. I am not one of these blackmailers who kill the, uh, golden goose. My touch is light, almost friendly." He waved his cigar airily. "Ask any of the many successful people I currently blackmail. They will tell you that Walter C. Caliban is a kindly, sympathetic scourge-never one to, uh. foreclose if the monthly payment falls a few days behind."

"That's reassuring," I said, finishing my fifth drink.

"It should be, sir. Why, there's one producer I've been blackmailing for ten years. We are friends, sir' We speak at parties. And last year when he needed quick cash for an, uh, unfortunate girl light with child, who did he turn to for a loan? Me sir. I watch carefully over my growing flock of, uh. victims."

I poured myself a sixth drink.

"I fear sir," said Mr. Caliban, "that you will soon be drunk."

"That's my intention," I agreed.

"Tut, tut. A nouveau murderer should eschew alcohol in-"

"Who did he kill?"

Mr. Caliban and I whirled simultaneously our mouths dropping open in unison. And there, standing in the door leading to my kitchen, was Loreli Lawson She must have walked in the back door which, stupidly, I usually leave open.

I noted at a glance that one side of her face was still badly scarred, and as she started toward Caliban, that she still used a cane to walk with But her figure was as shapely as it'd ever been and as she stamped angrily toward Mr. Caliban I couldn't help admiring the way her youthful breasts quivered and danced with each step, or the way her impudent buttocks squirmed and writhed against the tight fitting silk of her dress.

When she got close to Mr. Caliban she swung her cane viciously at his head He ducked adroitly.

"You double-crosser!" she screamed "I figured you were holding out on me. That's why I followed you, you cheap gumshoe. What have you got on him? Out with it!" She swung her cane again, and again Mr. Caliban ducked.

I swallowed my sixth drink in one gulp Then I walked with reasonable steadiness toward my writing desk.

Loreli was screaming threats and Mr. Caliban was urging her to be calm and assuring her there'd be plenty for both of them, but I hardly bothered to listen All I wanted was my pistol, a new, efficient Colt .38

"Shut up both of you!" I yelled "If you want to know who's going to get my money I'll tell you-I am! And to hell with both of you!"

They stopped fighting instantly and turned to stare at me. First at me. then at the leveled revolver in my hand, then back to me again. They both looked scared all of a sudden.

"Do nothing rash," Mr. Caliban urged. "Especially under even the mild influence of drink."

I thumbed the safety off the gun.

"I understand just how you feel," babbled Mr. Caliban. "Two blackmailers-an absurdity-a fearful risk-a veritable nightmare. But don't shoot met Remember my phone call! The evidence to the police!" His voice had gone up almost a full octave.

I pulled back the hammer of the .38, leveled it.

"If you must do something rash," squealed Mr. Caliban, "shoot her! She's unstable-can't be trusted. We'll bury her in the back yard-no one'll ever know!"

I considered the idea.

"My chauffeur!" screamed Loreli "He knows I'm here! He's right outside waiting... you wouldn't dare... you-"

She went on bleating but I paid no attention. I did glance out the window, though. And sure enough, there was her big Cadillac limousine parked in front of the house, complete with chauffeur.

I looked back at Loreli. She'd stopped bleating, and some of the fear was back in her eyes. But back of the fear was something else, something that made my blood run cold. Hatred. Insane, blazing, malignant hatred.

She didn't want to blackmail me. not really. She wanted to destroy me. And now she could No, I couldn't do business with Loreli. Not now. Not ever.

So I shot her.

In the head, since it seemed a shame to mark that beautiful body of hers-and her face was pretty well scarred up already.

She spun around in a half pirouette, then crumpled to the floor as gracefully as a dying swan She'd always been a graceful bodied girl, Loreli. Even dead she managed to fall in a dainty, feminine manner.
 

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